Catalogue description British Museum (Natural History): Department of Palaeontology: Early Members of Staff: Correspondence and Papers

This series contains a small number of items relating to 19th century members of the Department. During this period staff numbers were small, and responsibilities were broad. Although a number of the staff had well-developed specialities, the department was not subdivided into sections. Henry Woodward, for example, although a specialist on fossil arthropods, published on many vertebrate and invertebrate groups.

Papers of C D E Konig are held in both Mineralogy and Palaeontology manuscript collections, and some notes on fossil reptiles by G R Waterhouse are held in the Palaeontology Manuscripts, where there is also a large collection of the papers of A Smith Woodward.

Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated

Custodial history: The series was transferred to the archives in 1992.

• People: Charles Dietrich Eberhard Konig (1774-1851)
• George Robert Waterhouse (1810-1888)
• Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, Knight (1864-1944)

There is a word-processed index to the writers of

letters.